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Guest blogger Nilakshi Das discusses how her research on the scientific careers of South Asian women ties in with the themes of a recent Royal Society conference, ‘Women in Science: historical perspectives’.

Initiated in 1837 by Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma, Maharaja of the Kingdom of Travancore, the Trivandrum Observatory had strong links with Fellows of the Royal Society, as Hirra Ateeq discovers.

91TV’s Herschel collection is growing! Keith Moore describes how a new acquisition provides insights into the wider Herschel family and their scientific endeavours.

While putting together a new Google Arts & Culture exhibition dedicated to India, Louisiane Ferlier discovers how Indian science has been a consistent thread throughout the Royal Society’s collections.

Sharmin Chowdhury explains how her Royal Society Lisa Jardine Grant has aided her research into the historical interplay of public health, culture and politics in Bengal.

Cataloguer Hirra Ateeq shares her discoveries from the terrestrial magnetism correspondence in the archives of the Royal Society, and tells the story of a remarkable Indian astronomer.

In our fourth and final article linked to Black History Month 2022, Rebecca Martin discusses how historians can expand their research practices to include a wider range of historically excluded voices.

The first Indian Fellow of the Royal Society was a shipbuilder who lived in south-west London for the final years of his life, as Rupert Baker discovers.